Question

I know this a duplicate of a question with almost the identical name, however, I can’t get it to work in Android what so ever!

I am trying this: Regex to Match Symbols:

public Pattern bsymbols = Pattern.compile("[-!$%^&*()_+|~=`{}\\[\\]:\\";'<>?,.\/]");

However, this isn’t working. Does anyone know the correct method of applying this pattern?

P.S. Complete noob at Regex. 😀

From here originally – Regex to Match Symbols: !$%^&*()_+|~-=`{}[]:";'<>?,./

Error Message: Syntax error on token(s), misplaced construct(s)

UPDATE: Added extra backslashes…fixed a lot of em, now gets error from ; onwards. Using Eclipse.

Answer 1

How about that?

Pattern.compile("[-!$%^&*()_+|~=`{}\\[\\]:\";'<>?,.\\\\/]");